A couple of months ago I took my 60 into a shop becuase it overheated, I had already replaced the water pump, fan clutch, rad and thermostat, I didn't know what else to do. They looked at it and said there was a head gasket leak, which they fixed.
I also had them rebuild my carb, I picked up my 60 a few weeks later and it has never been the same sense. It now runs hot, ( I took it back to them and they said my mechanical gauge that I istalled last month is 10 degrees off, I have not verifed this yet). When I was driving away from there shop I would stall anytime I came to a complete stop. I drove back to them and they adjusted the idle screw. Well two weeks ago i had to go through emissions, and I failed bad.
I took it back to the shop. Another tech said the idle screw was screwed all the way out. He called me a few days later and said they did some work. They found an intake leak which they repaired and then took it to another shop and it failed emissions again, he said they would work on it some more. I just got off the phone with him and he said the jets are bad. He said they can not get toyota parts and that they will put aftermarket jets in the primary and seconday. He said it may not run well but enought to pass emisions and then they can adjust them again so the 60 will run good.
My question is - Is this acceptable? After paying someone a couple hundred dollars to rebuild my carb and then not have it run properly. I don't want to have to adjust it everytime I need to pass emissions. He said these are old carbs. Does everybody do this after you rebuild carbs? Is he trying to put in larger gets to get it to run better? What should I do? Can you still get Toyota jets? I will call around today.
Sean
I also had them rebuild my carb, I picked up my 60 a few weeks later and it has never been the same sense. It now runs hot, ( I took it back to them and they said my mechanical gauge that I istalled last month is 10 degrees off, I have not verifed this yet). When I was driving away from there shop I would stall anytime I came to a complete stop. I drove back to them and they adjusted the idle screw. Well two weeks ago i had to go through emissions, and I failed bad.
I took it back to the shop. Another tech said the idle screw was screwed all the way out. He called me a few days later and said they did some work. They found an intake leak which they repaired and then took it to another shop and it failed emissions again, he said they would work on it some more. I just got off the phone with him and he said the jets are bad. He said they can not get toyota parts and that they will put aftermarket jets in the primary and seconday. He said it may not run well but enought to pass emisions and then they can adjust them again so the 60 will run good.
My question is - Is this acceptable? After paying someone a couple hundred dollars to rebuild my carb and then not have it run properly. I don't want to have to adjust it everytime I need to pass emissions. He said these are old carbs. Does everybody do this after you rebuild carbs? Is he trying to put in larger gets to get it to run better? What should I do? Can you still get Toyota jets? I will call around today.
Sean